Get Inspired! Essential Reading for Your Games – The Post-Apocalypse
November 12, 2015 by dracs
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Roadside Picnic and Metro 2033! Great bit of Russian post-apoc for you!
Seconded. I’m not a big reader but both of these got me hooked (admittedly after playing Stalker and Metro 2033 obsessively).
I like my killer plants……
…good one!
I read in bed before I sleep and the dog chapter in I Am Legend had me in fury at 1am one evening last year, I couldn’t sleep.
The Day of the Triffids… unforgettable !
And two french post-apocalyptic books that acquired international renown : Planet of the Apes (by Pierre Boule) and NiourK (by Stefan Wul, nom-de-plume of Pierre Pairault).
Planet of the Apes sprung to my mind too.
Planet of the Apes was a great mention. I would like to bring up a comic book, which I am sure takes its inspiration from Planet of the Apes, Kamandi The Last Bay on Earth. Drawn by Jack Kirby it gives a fascinating view of a post-apocalyptic future where animals rule the earth and it has pictures too!
I considered Day of the Triffids as it is an all time favourite of mine, but I had included it recently on another list.
I did my undergraduate dissertation on Revelation. It stripped most of the fun out of reading it lol.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which was famously adapted into the best sci-fi film Harrison Ford’s been in (deal with it 😉 ) is set after a nuclear war. It’s well worth reading.
Yeah i do think its a shame the point about animals was totally missing in blade runner, that said if you ever played the game from west wood it featured quite heavily
as did the rad wastes 🙂
‘World War Z – An Oral History of the Zombie War’ by Max Brooks. Forget the generic zombie action movie with Brad Pitt that sadly butchered this fantastic piece or writing. The book is written from the perspective of a ‘future history’ that is written ten years after the zombie war. Brilliant, disturbing and thoughtful it is one of the handful of books I re-read on a regular basis no matter how many times I have read it in the past.
I like the background story of the strain (what they have told anyway) with a group fighting a rouge member to gain control/kill the rouge member.
the triffids always reminded me of Japanese knotweed when I was wee
One book I read a while back – Canticle for Leibowitz (by Walter M. Miller, Jr.). I struggled a little with the read (Latin phrases) but a great book for concept and flavor.
I read this book while doing research on the Cold War and peoples view’s on atomic weapons. I agree it has some tough parts, but I really enjoyed the setting. Reminded me of where GW got the Adaptas Mechanicas and their Mars/Machine Cult for Warhammer 40,000
def agree with the killer plants, way too underused too.
Ahem…any one remember Stephen King? The Stand? This is one of the best.
yup and the film was not bad as well m.o.o.n. that spells brilliant?
I remember it – it was terrible. King thinks that he is HPL, but he isn’t.
Patrick Tilley – Amtrak Wars
Cormack McCarthy – The Road
Then there was this book about a incestual tribe, who kills their mutated children. But one dwarfish child gets out alive. And how it gets its revenge. Forget the title.
@tim1 Agreed. The Stand is a fantastic book.
The owner trilogy by neil asher is quite good, although its as much dystopian as post apocolyptic
Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo, a bit of zombie apocalypse fun, brain dead pulp, get it 😉
48 by james herbert
well worth a read
“Y The Last Man” is another comic, as you can tell from the title it’s a story about the last living male human in a post apoc world populated entirely by women, awesome read.
At a slightly different angle how about
The Shape of things to come by HG Wells
Y the last man and the road are both essential reads. Y is more realistic than it seems at first and can be quite dark but always entertaining. The road is one of the most desolate and hopeless books ever written but gripping and full of beautiful prose.